But who guards the guardians?
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.